Transcript of "Manufacturing Pasts: Making the history accessible"

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What will we talk about?• Making the historyaccessible• Audiences• Evolving needs fordigital humanitiesPhoto by esrad on Flickr

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Making the history accessible• No historiography of British industrial decline• Dead zone: 70s – 90s• Locked away• Open materials• Capture it now• Not didactic but context• AccessiblePhoto by Wesley Fryer on Flickr

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Audiences• College librarians• College students –extended project• Currently-enrolleduniversity students• Local community• Local historians• Digital humanitiesscholars

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Evolving Needs for the Digital HumanitiesToolkit for researchers:• Using visual sources inhistorical research• Using oral testimony inhistorical research• Provenance, judgementTools for students & teachers:• Glossary, reference• How to make your own• How to reference

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Key SkillsAnalyzing and drawing conclusions from primary sources,including image-based sources, is a key skill for historians andspecialists in many fields, and utilising digitised primarysources has been effective in building such skills (Tally &Goldenberg, 2005)

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Embedding in learning• Gobbet papers• Seminars around some of the materials; group work• ‘Transformations’ module assessment will be builtaround• PGCE Geography assessment will be built around• PhD and Masters students will be introduced tothese as research sources